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Turning
into Mom by Maggie Van Ostrand
5-8-08
Most of us remember our moms with affection, or occasionally, dislike.
But we always remember them, even when they're not around any more.
I turned out to be more like my mom than I could ever have expected...
Elective
by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal 11-5-07
There are good things about having grown children and not so good
things about it. Big kids are, for one thing, much harder to cuddle...
Big
Babies
by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal 5-11-07
"It is a sad day in a mother's life when she suddenly realizes
that her daughters do not consider her to be the font of all knowledge;
from what is polite, to what is fashionable, to when one might reasonably
give up on DayQuil and make a trip to the doctor's office. It is
like losing something, losing a public office perhaps, or ..."
Bad
Mothers by Maggie Van Ostrand 5-11-07
It's difficult to write this story about University researchers
in Canada coming up with the unpleasant fact that mothers take better
care of "good looking" children than they do "ugly" ones.
Brotherhood
of Motherhood by
Peary Perry
4-25-07
There
exists in our society today a brotherhood much larger than that
of cops. This is the Brotherhood of Motherhood.
Sam's
Mother-in-Law by Mike Cox 3-30-07
"Despite the rocky beginning of their relationship, Sam Houston
treated Mrs. Nancy Lea, his mother-in-law, with all due respect.
He must have learned to accept her eccentricities as well, like
the lard incident..."
Autograph
book reveals mother's girlhood
by Delbert Trew 2-1-07
...Naoma was only 8 years old and the first entry was by her father
who wrote, "Love many and trust few, but always paddle your own
canoe. Respectfully, your Papa." The second entry was by her mother
who penned: "Dear Naoma, Keep a watch on your words my dear for
words are a wonderful thing. They are sweet like the bee's honey,
or like bees they have a terrible sting. Lovingly, your Mama."...
Gram
and Daffodils by Robert Cowser 2-1-07
"One afternoon in the early spring shortly after my younger
brother and I had arrived home from school, Mary brought Gram, as
John called his grandmother, to visit my family. Mary wanted Gram
to meet our family. She also wanted Gram to see the daffodils in
bloom in the pasture across the road from our house..."
Blame
it on the Boogie by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
It was a typical afternoon. Nothing very exciting, nothing too out
of the normal course of an afternoon. I have been thinking and thinking,
trying to define what particular event might have pushed my youngest
son Andy irrevocably into his Adolescent Angst phase...
Mother
by Mike Cox
She used to sit in the lap of the legendary old Texas Ranger Capt.
John R. Hughes and pull his white beard and ask him questions about
the Wild West. She remembered when soldiers on horseback gave a
public parade every Sunday at Fort Bliss...
Harvey
Girls and Juke Quarters by Delbert Trew
"My mother was a Harvey Girl... At 16 years of age, she left
home for the first time, signed a Harvey Girl contract and moved
into a room above the restaurant alongside the railroad track at
Temple...."
"For the first time in their lives, they had shiny black shoes,
hose and fine underwear, plus black skirts and starched white aprons
to wear each day." ...
An
Evening In Paris With Mom by Maggie Van Ostrand
"Someone was wearing Evening In Paris perfume the other day.
The scent of it instantly reminded me of Mom; I haven't smelled
Evening In Paris since we lost her, yet its fragrance transported
me back to my childhood and to the Mother's Day when I spilled a
precious bottle of it."
Nesting
by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
"...Friends, something truly wonderful has happened
to me and I want to share it for those of you who are one or two
steps behind me on the life experience ladder...."
Love
You, Ociffer! by Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
It takes a very special person to work the night shift successfully.
Monsters
of Big Creek by George Lester
A Mother's Wisdom
Don't
go Near the Water, Son, Until You Learn to Swim by N. Ray
Maxie
My mother, the kindhearted, nurturing and caring person that she
was, became extremely over-protective of us kids during the 1930's
and 40's. She was raised through some mighty tough times and later,
the Great Depression.
When
Traveling in Mexico, Leave Your Pantyhose At Home by Maggie
Van Ostrand
Meeting the relatives of Keiko, my son Jason's beautiful wife.
Bring
Me the Head of My Least Favorite Nephew by John Troesser
In back of many lunch counters and cash registers in Texas and around
the South, there is a sign that states: "If Mama Ain't Happy, Ain't
Nobody Happy." It is mildly amusing if it was a family member who
put the sign up. It isn't funny at all if "mama" herself put it
up. This is a story of a son who tried to please "mama" a little
too enthusiastically ...
Neta's
Snake Tale by Neta Rhyne
"Our oldest daughter started college in 1989 and since employment
opportunities are few and far between in remote west Texas I began
looking for ways to make money. One evening while reading the local
paper I came across a want ad which read "Wanted Live Rattlesnakes"
will pay $6.00 per pound. Now catching live rattlesnakes was not
on my list of things I wanted to do but considering how many rattlers
there are in these parts I figured this could be a profitable enterprise."
Women
Want Details, Men Cut to the Chase by Peary Perry
How come when babies are born, the way men describe
them is entirely different from women?
Grandparenthood
by Peary Perry
See also Fathers
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